Rumors: The Upcoming Star Wars Movie Focusing on Rey Will Be a Standalone Movie

Star Wars has quite a list of projects in the works currently, from Mangold’s new Star Wars film that takes place thousands of years in the past to Waititi’s undisclosed project that he claimed “will piss off the fans.’ Somewhere in the middle of this is a new Rey movie ‘Star Wars: Episode X’ with the current working title ‘New Jedi Order,’ which is rather connected to what the movie is supposed to be about.

A new Star Wars movie was announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023, focusing on Rey after ‘The Rise of Skywalker.’ Directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the film follows Rey’s journey to rebuild the Jedi Order. Originally, Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson were set to write, but Steven Knight took over. The story is set 15 years after ‘Rise of Skywalker,’ exploring the post-war, post-First Order galaxy with the Jedi in disarray. Kathleen Kennedy shared that Rey is working to fulfill her promise to Luke and rebuild the Jedi Order, based on the books. 

Recently Ridley who will reprise her role as Rey Skywalker gave a statement to the press that the story is so far really cool and hopes that fans will excited about the new movie, she also mentioned that she knows the storyline for only one movie, and according to Daniel Richtman, notable leaker and scooper there might be a good reason for that.

Apparently the upcoming ‘Star Wars: Episode X’ won’t lead to a trilogy like we are used to, it will be a standalone movie, leaving some opening and opportunity to make a sequel, presumably if Episode X is successful enough and well-received.

As a reminder ‘The Last Jedi’ and ‘The Rise of the Skywalker’ weren’t well-received movies when it comes to fans, especially some aspects of Ridley’s character Rey, who fans believe developed too quickly without any sort of logical explanation. Also, her lineage and expectations related to it were disappointing. Hopefully, the upcoming movie does something different to give justice to both Rey and Ridley. 

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